Displaying posts tagged with

“Michigan Daily”

Feb
3
2010
College sports coverage By admin | 1 comment

College staffs quietly cover signing day

Even though college football recruiting is overhyped, fans love it.
Even though these players have not played a down, fans want to know which school snagged the best recruits.
So that’s what we do, offer information about signed players. And fans eat it up, reading even one-sentence updates from newspapers by the tens of thousands in Atlanta, [...]

Jan
6
2010
College sports coverage, Multimedia reporting By admin | No comments yet

Sports staffs deliver terrific coverage ‘on break’

College sports journalists remain as busy as ever (despite being on holiday break from school) thanks to new media opportunities.
No longer do college staffs have to wait for students to return to campus and read old news in a print edition. Now, sports fans can receive updates on their favorite teams as easy as you [...]

Sep
14
2009
College sports coverage By admin | No comments yet

Life and death in a small Fla. team

Football saves lives in the impoverished town of Pahokee, Fla., which is much farther away from ritzy Palm Beach than a map would show. A town in the midst of sugar cane fields and marshes, Pahokee is also a place that takes lives at an early age. Gangs recruit kids, called ‘jitterbugs,’ to transfer weapons [...]

Feb
4
2009
College sports coverage By admin | No comments yet

College papers blog recruiting

How’s your school doing on the recruiting front this fine National Signing Day (otherwise called Christmas by football coaches and Rivals.com)? Several colleges are blogging news through the day. Few news items attract more readers than recruiting. A few years ago, a sports editor for the Atlanta Journal & Constitution said a single sentence on [...]